Re: Forming GNOME-UK

[Andrew Sobala <aes gnome org>]

Magnus Therning wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 14:04:47 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
>   
> > On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 11:51 +0100, Magnus Therning wrote:
> >     
> > > On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 10:04:37 +0100, Thomas Wood wrote:
> > >       
> > > > Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > > >         
> > <snip>
> >     
> > > [de-lurking...]
> > >
> > > Looking only to include major contributors might suggest that GNOME is
> > >       
> > Nowhere is written major contributors. It's people who made
> > "significant" contributions.
> >     
>
> I'm not a native English speaker, which might explain some of the fuss
> I've created, but "major" and "significant", when it comes to
> contributions, mean pretty much the same to me.
>
> After reading the section about becomming a member of the GNOME
> Foundation it seems that I expect more from "significant" than they do
> :-)
>   

You are correct; a "significant contribution" would probably be the same 
as a major one. However, the working-rule for the GNOME foundation is 
really "non-trivial contribution" (regardless of whether this is what it 
actually says on paper; I don't see "significant contribution" anywhere, 
but I only scanned quickly).

--
Andrew